Proverbs 2:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ To deliver you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ [Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you] to deliver you from the alien woman, from the outsider with her flattering words, [Prov. 2:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman, from the foreign woman with her slick words.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,

Proverbs 2:16 Cross References

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit; The one denounced by יהוה  falls in there.

Proverbs 23:27

For a whore is a deep pit, And a strange woman is a narrow well.

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth works ruin.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbour Spreads a net for his own feet.

Proverbs 6:24

To guard you against an evil woman, From the flattering tongue of a strange woman.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I found more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are shackles. He who pleases Elohim escapes from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

Judges 14:17

And she had wept before him the seven days while their feast lasted. And it came to be on the seventh day that he informed her, because she pressed him so much. She then explained the riddle to the sons of her people.